Grants & Opportunities

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Open and Upcoming Grants & Opportunities

Deadline November 30, 2023

Creative Placemaking Summit Scholarships

Earn a scholarship in order to attend an annual gathering of artists, administrators, community leaders, planners, designers, and other professionals exploring models at the intersection of arts, cultural heritage, and public policy.

Deadline December 1, 2023

Jazz Road Tours

Jazz artists, take your music to places it's never been. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.

Deadline December 3, 2023

Creative Placemaking Summit - Call for Session Proposals

Creative Placemaking Communities and South Arts invite you to submit a session proposal for the peer-to-peer exchange sessions, to be held during the upcoming South and Appalachia Creative Placemaking Summit in Atlanta, Georgia from March 5-8, 2024.

Deadline January 8, 2024

Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts

The Southern Prize and State Fellowships is open to visual artists in our nine-state region to support, expose, and celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of artistic excellence.

Deadline January 19, 2024

ArtsHERE

Through grants and peer learning opportunities, ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities, and sharing insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future.

Deadline January 31, 2024

Southern Circuit: Call for Filmmakers

Screening Partners select films and filmmakers to tour from a curated shortlist of submitted and invited films. Films are evaluated for consideration based on the subject matter and themes, potential programming or partnerships, and the film's relationship to the South.

Submit your film for consideration

Application Opens December 4, 2023

Presentation Grants

Grants up to $9,500 for organizations to present a Southern artist for a performing arts, literary arts, visual arts, or film engagement.

Ongoing

Express Grants

Open to organizations in rural communities of 50,000 people or less, the Express Grant program offers expedited awards of up to $3,000 supporting the presentation of touring artists.

Ongoing

Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants

These grants offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators.

Ongoing

Call for Presenters and Venues

We are looking for presenters of all types, from jazz clubs to places of worship to performing arts centers to house concerts to non-traditional presenters, and communities from rural or isolated to urban.

Additional Information

Closed and Archived Grants & Opportunities

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Search Our Grant and Fellowship Recipients

Meet South Arts' grant and fellowship recipients, and search through the projects we have funded.